#258: case confusion - cabal vs Cabal
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Reporter: guest | Owner:
Type: defect | Status: closed
Priority: normal | Milestone:
Component: Cabal library | Version: HEAD
Severity: normal | Resolution: wontfix
Keywords: | Difficulty: normal
Ghcversion: 6.8.2 | Platform:
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Changes (by kolmodin):
* status: new => closed
* resolution: => wontfix
Comment:
The name of the package is indeed Cabal, with a capital C.
Renaming either the name of the .cabal file or the repo dir is not trivial
though.
* Changing the name of the .cabal file would also require to rename the
package, since hackage requires the file name to be consistent with the
package name. This would effectively break all packages depending on
Cabal, and of course make much hassle with forward and backwards
compatibility.
* Renaming the repo name would break the darcs installations of all our
developers, something we are really not keen to do. We could set up a
symlink to use the {{{Cabal}}} name, but I'd find that even more confusing
than just having a single repository.
http://www.orlyowl.com/upload/files/NOOOO!!!.JPG
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Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/258#comment:1>
Hackage <http://haskell.org/cabal/>
Hackage: Cabal and related projects